Stella Cole Wants You to Escape With Her While Listening to Her New Album

Everyone has moments of nostalgia, but stollla cole wanted to capture that Feeling so it replaysed Forever.

The 26-Year-Eld Singer, Whose Voice Firmst CAPTURED AUDIENCES ON TIKTOK, DID JUST THAT H Her Newly Released Third Album, It’s Magicfrom Decca Records. But Her Love for Music, Specifically Classic American Standards, Began Much Earlier.

Cole Tells The Hollywood Reporter That while everyone else was listening to justin bieber and katy perry, she grew up listening to james taylor and norah jones and watching classic Hollywood Musicals. “I was this 3- or 4-year-ed memorizing full scenes of Mary Poppinsi Very Strange, ”She Recalls.“ I would get up on my parents’ desk and our dining-roma table and have my Little plastic microphone and give a lot of performces. ”

Thought she couldn’t have predicted at that age what her Future Career Wuld Look Like. Now She’s Sharing Her Interpretations of 20th-Century American Jazz and Show Tunes with Younger Generations, Introducking Somere of Music to A Timeless Genre of Music. “I Wanted Them to Feel Calm and A Little Bit of that Joy and Peace and the Escapism Because that’s What People Have Always Said they get from My Music,” She Says of Her Third.

Below, Cole Gets Candid About What Went Into Creating It’s MagicHer Favorite Parts of Performing, The Role Social Media Has Played in Her Rise to Fame, What She HOPES TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE FUTURE AND MORE.

What Initially Drew You to Old Hollywood Musicals at Such A Young Age?

Everyone has Called Me An Old Soul Since I Was A Newborn. Apparently, WHEN My Great-Grandma Held Me for the First Time, She Was Like, “She’s An Old Soul, You Can Tell.” I don’t know if i believe in all that, but i THINK OLD SoUL is Probably an apt description for me because i thinking i was was just immediatly Connected to it. I’m not sure there was a reason. I Mean, this Splendor of It All Is Amazing and the Costumes and the Songs – It’s Just the Whoa Package Gets Me and Gives Me this Insane Amount of Nostalgia, But not Like Nostalgia.

It’s Funny Because It Wasn’t the Good Old Days in the ’30s and’ 40s – That Was A Crazy Time for This Country and the World. Like Nobody Wants to Go Back there. But Something I’ve Been Thinking About A Lotly Lately Is That ’30s And’ 40s Was Such A Diffechult Time, and This Media and Music and Music, It Was All Created For People. SO WHEN PEOPLE Are Like, Oh, This Makes Me So Nostalgic WHEN I Sing “As Time Goes By” or “Over The Rainbow” or Something It Was Just of Created by the Movie Magic and the Hollywood and this Hopeful, Joyful Place That I Think Is Really Appeling to Evelyone, Even Thought the.

How would you say this album, It’s Magicis the figrent from your DEBUT album that you released Last Year?

Everyone was Really Speaking the Same Language on This One, and Because I Had a Little Bit More Experience More confIDance to be like, this is what i want, i don’t want it like this, this feels right and this is the temp and just all theatletletsts that and the ate. I’m so proud of and feels so me. This Actual is Fulfilling and Exciting for Me Because i’m Like, Yes, This Is What I’ve Been Trying To Make For Two Years And Now It Sounds How and Wanted It.

WHEN CRAFTING YOURD Album, What Was Your Initial Goal And Vision, and Do You Feel Like You Accomplized That Goal?

I HAD SUCH A CLEAR Goal at the Beginning of This One, Racher Than Just Like, Ok, Let’s Make A Denbut Album. I was experimenting with a lot of different songs and a Lot of Different Repertoire, Thinking About What Kind of Band To Record It, Should It Be A Big Big Band Orings? And I Wanted to do the strings’ cause i wanted it to be this sort of Old Movie Magic. … I was felling Really Drawn Toward Love Songs and Positive Songs and Calming, Dreamy, Like That Was Just the Vibe that Felt Right. I DON’T REALLY KNOW WHY, BUT I Just Followed My Gut On That And I Ended Up Wanting To Create Something Chohesive and It Didn’t Need To Be A Different Bandent. It’s Like, No, It’s Cohesive. IT’s A Bunch of Soft Strings Just Like Nat King Cole or Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland Wuld be Made. And WHEN PEOPLE LISTEN TO IT, I WANTED THEM to FEEL CALM AND A LITTLE BIT OF THAT JOY AND PEACE AND THAT ESCAPISM BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS SAIDY.

Between Writing, Recorder and Performing, Do You Have A Favorite Part As An Artist?

Performing is Probably My Favorite, Maybe Just Because is the one that I do the most. I love all Three Parts. The Writing is Something that’s a bit newer to me. I’ve Done Just A Couple of Sessions with People and SomeTimes I Write a Full Song Myseld on a Plane, Usarally, or On a Long Car Ride or Something. And that’s a reality Fun Feeling and I Always Feel Creative in a Different Way than I do who i’m singing of the people people’s Music. The Studio Is Also Anazing Feeling, But Again, We Dose Records So Quickly and Just Like Three Days Max. So that is Always Such An Intense Process Because Is Like, Ok, Lock In. But I will say that no felling realy beats the felling of singing live with a string Orchestra. I just sort of get full body chills constantly.

But I do through my favorite is performing LIVE LIVE BECAUSE I STARTED OUT MY CAREER Performing to My Phone, Like Alone in My Paarents’ House and Feel that Energy. To me, Singing is all about the storytelling. I ALWAYS SAY THAT IS ABOUT LIKE ACTING THE SONG AND GETTING TOSE EMOTIES OUT Through Through A Song and Telling Some Stem of Story from My Life, and To See that Jesa Affecting PEAPLE INTAPLE INTAPLE.

As Tiktok Has Become An Important Platform For Artists WHEN RELEASING MUSIC AND CONNETING CONNECTING FANS, WHAT’S YOUR PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND HOW YOU’S YOURV USED ITER.

Social Media Is So Important in the Music World. IT’s A Controversial Thing with A Lot of Musicians and Singers and Just Creatives in General Because It Really Has Taken Over, Not Just the Music Industry, But Every Aspect. Like if you’re an author, they want you to be on tiktok. If You’re Starting A Business, You Gotta Get Tiktok Followers. It’s like every party part of advertiseing, like radio, Billboards, Everything, Like that’s All Tiktok Now or Instagram. And I Think It Is Dificult, and I DO Understand People’s Freustrations with It Because there’s a Lot of Art that’s Not Necessarily Meant to Be Consumed in 30-Second.

But My View on It Is Like, The Way It’s Changed The Music Industry at Least Has Been To Level The Playing Field A Bit. Just to use my own story, I Grew Up in Springfield, Illinois – Pretty Small City in Central Illinois. I didn’t know anybody in the musical Industry. I’d Never Known Anyone Who Was A Professional Artist in Any Way or I Just Didn’t Have any Connections. I Moved to New York Knowing Almost Nobody Except a Couple of Friends from College, and by Posting Little Videos “Hey, look, i’ve built this following. NOW CAN WE MAKE A RECORD OR NOW CAN I DO A SHOW,” AND THINK THAT JUST WULD HAVE BEEN UNTHINKABLE BEFORE. … I MEAN, Social Media Has Given Me So Much and Such An Amazing Audence, But Is Hard As An Artist Not to Think About the Numbers Too Much and Get Too Obsense ABOUT IT. But I Think Without Tiktok or Instagram, I would not be any i am today at all all.

WHEN YOU LOOK BACK AT YOUR CAREER SO FAR, IS THERE A MOMENT YOU’RE’RE YOU’S MOST PROOUD OF?

Signing with Decca [Records] WAS A PRETTY BIG DEAL FOR ME. Before i signed with them, i had been a little bit of skared of the whole major label Thing. Rightly So, We’ve All Heard of the Taylor Swift Thing and Raye Had Such Bad Experiences with A Majoor Label. So that was always a goal for me, but i washa always questing it being a goal like, oh, are they just gonna take all my money and exploit me, etc. And WHEN I Found Decca, and WHEN I WAS CONNECTED TO THEM, IT WAS SO AMAZING BECAUSE SINCE SINCE OF THE CLASSICS LABEL OF UNIVERSAL Also Are Not Just Focused On, Oh, Who’s Gonna Make Us The Hits? They Were Like, Your Music Is Good and We Like That and Let’s Work Together. SO I THINK SIGNING WITH DECCA, I FELT LIKE, OH, THIS IS LEGIT.

Looking Ahead, Where Wuld You Like to See Yourself in Five Years, Career-Wise?

I Studied Theater in College and I Still Think of Myself More As Like An Actor than Who A Singer, Even Thought That Makes No Sense Because I Very Much Haven’t Done a Play in Years. But that Way I Think of MySelf, and at some point, I would love to focus on acting again and be on Broadway. That’s Still A Big Goal of Mine, That I Hope Will Happen Someday, and Be in Movies or Tv Shows or Anything, Either As A Singer or Not. And musically, i THINK I’ll ALWAYS Continue Doing the Music Thing For As Long As i Can I Can Because I Love It So Much. And I DON’T THINK I’ll Ever Completely STOP SINGING STANDARDS BECAUSE IS WHAT I LOVE The MOST, SO WHY WOURT I STOP? But I am Continuing to Slowly Work My Way Into Writing My Own Music and Eventual I’ll Write Some Stuff that’s Good Enough Enough I Have Enough Confidence in With.

If you had to describe What makes Stella Cole, Stella Cole, What Wound You Say?

Me, AS A Person, I’M A VERY FAMILY-ORIENTED PERSON. I’m obessed with my family and my close friends, so i think the people who surround me sort of make me me. I Think The Sort of Midwestern Humility that I have from My Paarents is a Really Important Thing to Stay Ground and In Reality, I Really Had No Trouble with that. I ACTUALLY HAVE NO EGO. Maybe I Could Have A Little More Ego, But I’M So Midwestern, So that’s Been Good and Not a Problem. I’m a huge nature girlie. I love just being in the mountings and by a lake and trees. And Professionally, I Think What Makes Me Is Just Sticking To What I Love And Being Authentic To The Things That Really Move My Heart and Move My Soul. And that’s Never Been An Easy Thing for Me in the Past, But It’s Something I’ve Been Doing A Good Job at These Last Couple of Years, and It’s Clearly Been Working OTHES I Truly Love.